Girl Ray, Support: Slipper

Girl Ray are the trio of Poppy Hankin, Iris McConnell and Sophie Moss from London. Their 3rd album PRESTIGE, out August 4, 2023 on Moshi Moshi, takes the chaotic charm of their debut Earl Grey (2017) and the indie-soaked R&B of Girl (2019) and injects it with a shot of eighties hi-NRG disco pop.

Prestige is Girl Ray's sound, reclaiming disco music as the celebration of sexuality and outsider culture it originally began as. Inspired by Pose, the television drama about New York City's queer ballroom scene in the '80s, Prestige is an escape into a fantasy clubland of dancing with friends and falling in love. In fact, Prestige is about love: falling in love and being afraid of being hurt by it; being all alone and longing for it; the tensions between what it is and what you imagine it to be.